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Rounding the Bend (Season 11 | Episode 7)

Season 11 Episode 7

The team interviews writer Beverly Donofrio at her home in Long Island before heading on to Detroit, where they talk to spoken word poet Airea Dee Matthews. She urges the Roadtrippers to reconcile the unity of opposites and see possibility and growth in an unlikely place. In Chicago, Tele’jon reconsiders his reservations about going back to school when the team interviews Professor David Stovall.

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